By the way, Sheri did do a shop update at The Loopy Ewe last night and restocked the Sunflower sock pattern. My two new patterns, Aimee and Ribs and Cables, are both available there now as well.

Last night I did indeed start a new sock from my Claudia Handpainted yarn in the “Pink Cloud” c0lorway.

Not a whole lot of progress yet because I started, knit an inch or so of the pattern, didn’t quite like it, ripped it out, and re-jiggered. This is a simple “cloverleaf” rib pattern and I like the way it is working out. Because the yarn is variegated, I wanted something relatively simple, but still entertaining to knit.

Lucy Sez

For a blog post entitled “All Lucy All the Time” I see very little about me here . . .

I’ll be writing this pattern up soon — I’ll try to make it available this week. I’m going to St. Louis on Thursday for the Loopy Ewe Spring Fling and I’ve got a lot of random “stuff” to do before I leave, but the pattern is almost done.

Sprucey Lucy will be a freebie, in celebration of my new book and as a thank you to everyone who has said such nice things about it. 🙂

Speaking of Freebies

Did you see that Potter Craft is giving away a free copy of Socks From the Toe Up. Go here to enter the drawing!

The Next Sock . . .

. . . will be knit from this:

That’s Claudia Hand Painted Yarn in the “Pink Cloud” colorway. I’ve had this in my stash for ages. I went into the stash room yesterday to root around for a yarn for my next project and realized I hadn’t made anything with Claudia Hand Painted in a long time.

This next project will be a super-easy sock. It will go to the Spring Fling with me and I want something I don’t have to pay close attention to since there will be lots of socializing going on!

Check out what very clever knitter Emily (emmylou on Ravelry) has done to her new sock books:

I may need to do that to my copy . . .

Speaking of Ravelry, check out this new group: Socks From the Toe Up KAL. It is — you guessed it — a knit-along for the patterns from my new book. Have a look-see — it should be a lot of fun and there will be prizes involved, people! A big thank you to Pam for founding the group and for adding me as a moderator. 🙂

Another Great Idea

Reader Bonnie put together a table that lists all the patterns from my book by category along with the yarn and colorway for each. She kindly offered it up to you all. It is available here in pdf format. I’ll put a link to it from the free stuff page in a day or so as well. Thanks, Bonnie!

First Book Appearance

We had the first book event yesterday, at Knit Happens, in Alexandria, VA. L-B came up from Richmond for it, and brought a cake!

Have you ever been in this situation: You create something and you feel pretty good about it. You think you’ve done a good job. You think it is more or less worthy.

But of course doubts start creeping in. Is it good enough? Will people laugh at it?

I’ve had approximately a year of those doubts, so of course I am over the moon, deliriously happy that so many of you have told me how much you like Socks From the Toe Up. Thank you again. So. Much.

I’m particularly pleased that so many of you have mentioned how useful you are finding the step-by-step illustration directions for the different techniques. Because that was probably the hardest part of the book to create.

I wrote up the techniques, step-by-step. Then we photographed each step of each technique. I did the knitting, and the KOARC did the photography. You can probably guess what a fiddly time-consuming process this was — multiple photos of each step to make sure we got one perfect photo for each one. Then the photos were sent to an illustrator who created the drawings, which were sent back to me for review. The illustrator did an amazing job — there were very few that needed any tweaking at all.

You are probably a bit tired of hearing me yap about the book, but I made alarmingly little knitting progress since yesterday’s post, so I’ve not much else to yap about. I spent the evening out in the company of good friends and the knitting never came out of my purse.

Still, I’m about to start the heel flap!

I’ll most likely have this sock with me when I go to Knit Happens on Saturday (April 18) for the first book signing.

I’m a member of “FluffFactory” – an online group of artisans – mostly moms involved in making items for children and babies. We host 2 charity events each year. This event we have chosen to donate auction proceeds to Heifer International. The auctions are at the end of the month.

It’s early yet – only a few items are previewing but as the time grows near there will be MANY wonderful items for sale, including hand dyed yarns and other knit-related items.

2018 Completed Work

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